Watch: Squeeze performs “Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)” on Fallon

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At this point, our affection for the musical selection on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is no secret, and last night definitely wont make us any less inclined to stay up late to sit through Jimmy boys jokes.

New wave kings Squeeze took a moment before their opening gig at Radio City Music Hall to hit up NBCs studios and power through a spirited rendition of Pulling Mussels (From the Shell). The track comes from the bands 1980 classic album, Argybargy, but the Glenn Tilbrook-penned jam has every reason to sound fresher than ever.

The band is releasing a greatest hits compilation where their middle-aged bodies essentially cover songs that they wrote three decades ago. The results are being released as a new Squeeze album called Spot The Difference. The album drops on August 3rd (via Anchor and Hope), and if you think that re-recording old songs note-for-note is a little odd, youre not alone.

In my heart of hearts Id never dreamt of going back and [re-recording], Tilbrook told Pollstar on July 9th, However, Universal, which controls the catalog, does not want to play ball with us at all about giving us any rights to re-release or deal with our own back catalog in any way, shape or form. Its very sad for us, but there are a few tracks where I think weve done better. What weve done is we recreated the original sound but in some ways better than it was. But there were other tracks  Is That Love, Another Nail, Pulling Mussels  that sound identical. What was an extremely difficult record actually becomes, at the end of it, a joy. Im really proud of it.

Check out the band playing Pulling Mussels (From the Shell) on Fallon below, and then check them out on the road at one of their upcoming North American shows. Tickets are available via Ticketmaster.com.